# trillar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan trillar, from Latin trībulāre. Doublet of the borrowed tribular.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [tɾiˈʎa]
* IPA: (Valencia) [tɾiˈʎaɾ]
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

### Verb

trillar (first-person singular present trillo, first-person singular preterite trillí, past participle trillat)
* (transitive) to thresh

#### Derived terms

* trillador
* trillaire

#### Related terms

* trill

### References

* “trillar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* trullar

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese trillar, from Vulgar Latin *triblāre, from syncopation of Latin tribulāre. Doublet of the borrowed tribular. Cognate with Portuguese trilhar, Spanish trillar, Catalan trillar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɾiˈʎaɾ/

### Verb

trillar (first-person singular present trillo, first-person singular preterite trillei, past participle trillado)
* to thresh
    Synonym: mallar
* to beat up; to bruise
    Synonyms: mallar, mazar
* to jam (a finger) with a door, a drawer
    Vaste trillar os dedos coa porta. ― You are going to jam your fingers with the door.
* (of the clothes moth or the woodworm) to eat clothes or wood
* to crumble (bread into milk, soup)
    Synonyms: entrillar, migar
* to mince
    Synonym: picar

#### Related terms

* trilla
* trillo

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “trillar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “trillar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “trillar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “trillar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “trillar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *triblāre, from syncopation of Latin tribulāre. Doublet of the borrowed tribular.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɾiˈʝaɾ/ [t̪ɾiˈʝaɾ]
* IPA: (most of Spain and Latin America) /tɾiˈʝaɾ/ [t̪ɾiˈʝaɾ]
* IPA: (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /tɾiˈʎaɾ/ [t̪ɾiˈʎaɾ]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /tɾiˈʃaɾ/ [t̪ɾiˈʃaɾ]
* IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /tɾiˈʒaɾ/ [t̪ɾiˈʒaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: tri‧llar

### Verb

trillar (first-person singular present trillo, first-person singular preterite trillé, past participle trillado)
* (transitive) to thresh
* (transitive, figurative) to wear out, to overuse
* (transitive) (of a person) to thrash, to beat up
* (transitive) (of a path) to beat, to wear down

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Related terms

* trilla
* trillador
* trilladora

### Further reading

* “trillar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Verb

trillar
* present indicative of trilla